Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-04

the cultured, and the educated; but alas
Tor the great multitude OF the children Of
the abandoned and the lost! A few of
schools; but what about the "a, 900 desti-
tute children of New York, and the score
of thousands of destitute children of
Brooklyn, around whom are thrown no
benign, and heavenly, and Christian in
fluences? Ii is
TREMENDOUS QUESTION,
what is to become of the destitute children
of these cities? We must either act on
them, or they will act on us We will
either Chrstianize them, or they will
heatbenize rs. 1t is question not more
for the Christian than for the pbilanthropist
and the statesman. Oh! if we could have
all these suffering little children gathered
together, what scene of hunger, and
wretchedness, and rags, and sin, and trou-
BILE, and darkness! II We could see those
little feet on the broad road TO death,
which through Christian charity ought TO
bo pressing the narrow path of life; if we
could hear those voices in blasphemy,
which ought to be singing the praises of
God; il we conid see those little hearts,
which at that age ought not TO be
soiled with one unclean thought,
becoming the sewers for every
abominatiOn; if We could see those
suffering little ones sacrificed on the altar
of every iniquitous passion, and baptized
with fire from the lava of the pit we would
recoil, crying out: "Ayaunt, thou dream
of hellw They are not always going to be
children. They are coming up to be the
men and women Of this country. That
spark of iniquity that might now be put
out with one drop of the water Of life, will
become the contiagration of every green
thing that God ever planted in the soul.
That which ought To have been temple OF
the Holy Ghost will become a SCARED and
blistered ruin-every light quenched and
every altar in the dust. That petty thief,
who slips into your store and takes yard
of cloth from your counter, will become
the highwayman OF the forest, or the
burglar at midnight, picking the lock of
your money safe and blowing up your
store to hide the villainy.
A GREAT ARMY WITH STAGGERING STEP,
and bloodshot eye and drunken hoot, they
every grOg shop and den of intamy in the
land, to take the ballot box and hurrah at
the elections. The hard-knuckled fist of
rufiianism will have more power than the
gentle hand of intelligence and sObriety.
Men, blOated, and with the signature of
sin burned in from the top of the forehead
to the bottom of the chin, will look honest
men ont of countenauce. Moral cOrpses,
which ought to be buried hundred feet
deep to keep them from poisoning the air,
will rot in the face OF the sun at MONDAY.
Industry in her plain frOck, will be unap-
preciated, while thousands of men will
wander around in ideneSs, with their
hands on their hips, saying: "The world
owes us living" q, what tremendous
power there is in iniquity when uneducated,
on concentrating, and deepening, and
widening, and gathering momentum until
it swings ahead with a very triumph of
desOlatiOn, drowning like surges, scoreE-
ing like flames, crushing like rocks! What
are you going to do with this abandoned
population OF the streets? Will you
gather them in your churches? 1t is not
the will of your Heavenly Father that
one of these little ones should per
ish. If you have ten respectable
children in your class, gather in ten that
are not respectable. If in your Bible
class there he twenty young men who
have come from Christian homes and ele
CANT surroundings let those twenty young
men go out and gather in twenty more of
the young men of the city who are lost TO
God and lost to society. This outside
population, unless educated and restrained,
will work terror in ages that are to come
Years ago, at New Orleans, when the chOl
era was raging fearfully, steamboat was
put out lust before nighttall, crowded with
passengers who were trying 10 escape from
the pestilence. After the boat had been
ont little while, the engineer fell with
the cholera. The captain, in cOnsterna-
ton, went down among the passengers and
asked: is there any one here who knows
anything about engineering" A swarthy
man replied: 81 am an engineer" We'll,
replied the captain, Il would be very glad
if you would take charge of this boat. "
The man went to the engine. The steam
er moved more rapidly, until after awhile,
the captain and some passengers were
alarmed, and they went to see what was
the matter, and they found that this was
A MANIAC ENGINEER,
and that he was seated on the safety-valve;
and as they came to him, he said: IL am
commissioned of Satan to drive this steamer
| to hellm' and he fiourished his pistol, and
would not come down. But after awhile,
| through some stratagem, he was brought
| from his position, and the lives of the
messengers were saved. O. my friends,
that steamer had no such peril as our in
stitutions are threatened with, if the
| ignorant and unrestrained children of this
land shall come up in their Ignorance and
their crime to engineer our civil and re-
| ligious institutions, and drive them on the
rocks. Educate this abandoned popula-
ton. or they will overthrow the institu-
aiOns of this land. Gather them into
your Sabbath schools. congratulate
Won that many have been gathered.
Go forth, teachers, in the name Of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and on the coming Sabbaths
NAV there he found gathered scores and
| hundreds of these wanderers, and instead
OF eighteen hundred In the Sabbath school
we shall see three thousand or four thou
sand, and the grace of God will come down
upon them, and the Holy Spirit will bring
them ali into the truth.
Another characteristic ofa live Church is
one with
APPROPRIATE ARCHITECTURE.
| In the far West and amid destitute pOpu-
lation, log church is very appropriate
the people living in log houses. But in
communities where people live in comfort
able abOdes a church uncommOdiOus or
lacking in beauty is a moral nuisance.
Because Christ was born in a manger IL no
reason why we should worship Him in
barn. Let the churches of Jesus Christ be
not only comfortable, but ornate.
Years ago we resolved TO have
comfortable church. We resolved
that it should be amphitheatrical in
shape. The prominent architects OF the
country, after figuring on the matter a
good while, said that such a church would
not be churchly, and that they would have
nothing TO do with the enterprise. But
after awhile we found an architect willing
to risk his reputation. He put up for us
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